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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wonderful letter in the Northwest Current about Hearst, from a longtime DC soccer family.[/quote]

That letter had many errors in it.

The trees are not in peril and placing the pool near the tennis courts would not impact the trees.

But whatever, everyone will read into whatever they want in this fake news era.[/quote]

If the pool is built where the tennis courts are, then it would be under the tree drip line and excavation/earth works will damage the trees, necessitating their removal.  And in any case, as the letter writer pointed out, who wants to use a pool that is perpetually in shade?[/quote]

Someone keeps repeating this and this is simply not true - the tennis courts are above the mature trees elevation wise and a good distance away.  Being under the trees drip line does not mean a pool cannot be there - it is the trees roots that need to be protected and if the trees roots were currently an issue the tennis courts current location would be an issue.

There is no logical or sound reason why putting a pool where the tennis courts are will cause any damage so please stop repeating this fallacy - high rise buildings with excavated basements have gone up closer to these trees than anything proposed at Hearst without causing damage so this is just another unsubstantiated falsehood being peddled by neighbors.[/quote]

I call B.S.  The construction of a mere driveway, which does not exactly require deep excavations and retaining walls, caised the demise of several old shade trees next to “Cafritz Commons” in Chevy Chase D.C.

https://currentnewspapers.com/city-arborists-had-opposed-cafritz-driveway-that-killed-trees/[/quote]

Umm are you familiar with the site and did you read the article?

I believe there are about 20 trees around the building and most of them seem to have survived the construction and these are trees that in some cases almost touch the building.  And apparently the trees that didn't make it are because they installed a driveway which was something that the immediate neighbors asked for and was opposed by DDOT and UFA and yes I realize UFA is part of DDOT but each group opposed the driveway for different reasons.

Or go look at the new AU Law School in Tenleytown where they managed to build a large new project without killing mature trees closer to the buildings than this pool will be.[/quote]

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